When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.
Richard SibbesGod takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.
Richard SibbesIt is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.
Richard Sibbes